Rail-chair



W. D SCOTT.

RAIL CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18, 1919.

1,336,099, Patented Apr. 6,1920.

047/3 mm I UNXTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM D. SCOTT, OF MARTIN'S FEB-RY, OHIO.

; RAIL-CHAIR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVlLLIAM D. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Martins Ferry, county of Belmont and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bait Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates broadly to rail chairs, and more specifically to a combined rail chair and clamp.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive rail chair and clamp designed for seating light track rails in mines and other places where the use of crossties is either impracticable or undesirable.

A further object is to provide a rail chair and clamp composed of a single pieceof material which is so shaped, that it will not only become firmly seated upon the ground or upon a mine floor, but will also effectually tend to resist overturning of rails resting thereon.

' H With these and other objects in View, the

invention resides in the features of construction which will hereinafter be described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which my invention is formed;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the invention;

Fig 3 is a perspective view of the same;

Referring to said drawings, in which like designating characters distinguish like parts throughout the several views 1 indicates a flat base portion, and 2 and 3 opposite lateral clamp members which are bent over into inwardly and upwardly inclined overlying relation to said base portion and which are adapted to rest upon the opposite upper faces of the base of a rail which seats upon said base portion.

Said base portion 1 has the opposite ends thereof continued a suitable distance beyond the adjacent ends of the clamp members 2 and 3, forming end portions or extensions 4C which occupy a common plane with said base portion; and formed laterally with respect to each of said end extensions 4: are opposite outwardly and downwardly inclined tongues 5 which have theirends disposed in a common plane below and parallel to said Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

Application filed November 18, 1919. Serial No. 338,882.

base portion. Said tongues constitute supports which rest upon the mine floor, ground, or other foundation, and which tend, for a time at least, to yieldingly support said base portion slightly above the level of the floor. The ends of said tongues also tend, under continued use, to dig into, or become buried in, the floor for efi'ectually preventing both longitudinal and lateral creeping movement of the device. Further, said tongues serve to brace the device for preventing any tendency thereof to overturn under any ordinary laterally directed force exerted by cars passing over the track rails.

The device described isformed of a single blank of sheet metal of rectangular form, illustrated in Fig. 1, the same having two pairs of oppositely disposed slits 6 cut therein whereby the portions which are later shaped to form the tongues 5 are separated from the portions which are later shaped to constitute the clamp members 2 and 3.

What is claimed is- 1. A one-piece rail chair comprising a base, oppositely disposed clamp members aranged in inwardly inclined overlying relation to said base, said base having its ends extended beyond and lying in the same plane therewith, and downwardly extending tongues formed at opposite sides of each of said extended ends of the base.

2. A one-piece rail chair comprising a base, oppositely disposed clamp members arranged in inwardly inclined overlying relation to said base, said base having its ends extended beyond the ends of said members, and opposite lateral tongues extending in an outwardly and downwardly inclined direction from said extended ends of the base.

3. A chair for mine rails formed from a single sheet-metal blank and consisting of a fiat base, opposite inwardly bent clamp members adapted to overlie and rest upon the base of a rail seated upon said base, said base being extended at opposite ends past the ends of said clamp members, andlateral tongues formed upon said extended ends and having an outward and downward inclination. V

A chair for mine rails and the like formed from a single sheet-metal blank of rectangular form having adjacent to each end thereof a pair of alined transverse slits which (EXlJelldlllWEl-l'd from the lateral edges tongue-like braces adapted to become emthroughoutequal distances, said blank being bedded in the mine, floor. r r 10 shaped to form a flat longitudinally extend- In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature ing base with the lateral portions located inin presence of two subscribing Witnesses. termediate the pairs of slits bent upward WILLIAM TD; SCOTT.

and" inward to form clamp members and lVitnesses: with the lateral portions located beyond said H. E. DUNLAP,

slits bent to" form downwardly inclined T. J. RUDGE; 

